Re: Early adopters of symbol based dependencies needed
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:05:41PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:20:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > > With debhelper 5.0.61, dh_makeshlibs will also call dpkg-gensymbols if it
> > > finds debian/<package>.symbols (or debian/<package>.symbols.<arch>). So
> > > for packages using debhelper, the only thing to do is to drop the right
> > > symbol file(s) at the right place and add build-depends on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.9)
> > > and debhelper (>= 5.0.61).
> >
> > I suppose you'd also want to stop passing -V to dh_makeshlibs,
> > since the symbol versioning should take care of setting the version.
> > -V without any parameters is evil anyway.
> >
> > Although, what happens if a package is built against the library on
> > a buildd that doesn't have the new dpkg-dev yet? It would generate a
> > wrong unversioned dependency in this case.
>
> Do buildds have special rules for build dependencies on dpkg-dev ? O_o
Oh now I understood. Well, I guess the -V should still be used...
Mike
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